...s, and the best of any
existing in my time. . . .
I have given an account of the constitution of Lycurgus,
I will now endeavour to describe that of Rome at the period
of their disastrous defeat at Cannae .
I am fully conscious that to those who actually live under
this constitution I shall appear to give an inadequate account
of it by the omission of certain details.
Knowing accurately every portio...